Asynt has launched a DrySyn heating block designed to allow safe, productive heating and stirring experiments with pear-shaped flasks.
Commonly used with rotary evaporators, pear-shaped flasks are popular with organic chemists as concentrated samples can be removed much more easily than from a round bottom flask.
They are also used for evaporating solutions to dryness post synthesis because their ’rounded V’ shape enables solid materials to be scraped out efficiently.
Martyn Fordham, managing director of Asynt said: “By designing a version of the DrySyn to accept these flasks - chemists can eliminate the need for sample transfers between reaction flask and an evaporator (pear-shaped) flask, allowing the same flask to be used for both synthesis and evaporation.”
Made of chemically resistant, anodised aluminium, the DrySyn range of heating blocks for pear-shaped flasks (100mL, 250mL, 500mL, 1000mL), offer heating performance to more than 300ºC and can heat a reaction flask 25% faster than an oil bath.
Providing top heating and stirring performance without the inherent risks and mess of an oil bath, DrySyn heating blocks are designed to help laboratory scientists create a safer, cleaner and more efficient working environment. They are also a flexible, safe alternative to using heating mantles.
